Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-13
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HEeI8nC kratn AutO u HsAB-
senger Train at a Water Tank Near
an Indiana station.
Chicago, Dot. IA special to the
Evening Journal from norsh Judaon,
Ind. says: Another Ohatsworth railroad
horror occurred on the Chicago and
railroad this morning, sixty
east Of Chicago, heal Koa,z sta
blon Seventeen passengers were killed
burned up III the wreck and from
twenty five to thirty we're more or less
A heavy fresh meat train teles-
COPIED the evening accommodation train.
the New York express, which leaves
Chicago at 7 40 p. m. The acoomoda- |
ton, with one baggage car, two coaches |
one sleeper, had stopped ut a water
tank for water, about one mile west
Koutz, and the freight train following |
crashed into the sleeper, telescoping and
burning up the entire passenger train
as above stated. VIM. Perry, auditor of
this (Stake) county, and his wife and
child were victims OF the terrible fire
which broke out almost %immediatel,
after the freight train crashed in among
the passengers. Not @ particle of their
bodice was rescued from the flames.
Kouts, Ind, Got. 1.-THE worst hor-
rors of Chatsworth were duplicated here
to-day. A dozen blood-staIned, smoke
begrimed victims of railroad csrelessness
and laundering were brought into the
little station house early in the morning,
and this afternoon nine charred corpses,
victims Of the same affair, were laid
upon the depot platform. while three
miles west. down the track OF the Chi
cago and Atlantic railway, Near q lonely
water tank, piles of fearfully tangled
debris mark the spot where the collision,
seldom eqnalsd for terrible results, oc-
CURED. According to the BEST estimates
o~btainable, for only an estimate il OBJ
tainabie, fully thirty human lives have
been sacrificed Outright, aud half that
number of persons suffered injuries
more or less serious. The east bound
express that left Chicago last night
with o great load of passengers. had,
without q moments warming, during q
temporary wait, been smashed in from
behind BY q heavily loaded
fest freight, plunging madly for
ward in the darkness, bent
on beating all competition in hurrying
dressed meat to the markets of the sea.
board. Some part OF the machinery of
the passenger engine had been thrown
out of order during,the run from Chicago.
a trihing stop at the water tank would
make It all right, il was thought, and
the stop was accordingly made. sud
denly out of the darkness behind came
the flash OF q headlight, the rush and
rattle OF many wheels end then q mighty
crash, Jnst as at Ohatsworth, the sleep.
ing coach nov got in its deadly work,
the massive frame work of the sleeper
being transformed into q huge catapault
pushed mercilessly forward by the
freight, and crushed into the oars
forward, smashing their comparatively
light timber, and making the work OF
quickly took fire and the sight OF the
~shrleking victims and dancing flames
was one never to be forgotten,
To-day on his bed agony OF the little
hotel at Kouts, the engineer of the pas
senger train told the following story
of the terrible disaster: I'VE passed
No. 40 at Boone Grove on time and
started toward Kouts. No. 40 pulled
ont of the station less than two minutes
behind us, when they should have waited
much longer. When we were we'll away
from town We could see her lights but
a little way behind. We we're not moving
very fGBt because the engine was disabled
on n side. We had broken an eccentric
strap and we're running but one pair OF
wheels, having been forced to disconnect
the other. pair OF wheels, which were
rnnning loose. OF course, the accident
held our speed down q little. but we had
no idea that the engineer OF No. 40
would have any difficulty in keeping off
our heels. The last time / looked be-
hind there was ample room between us
We stopped Of Boone Grove water tank,
and were there almost q minute before
they struck us."
VIM. Graham, oonduetoro of the Chi
caso, st. Louis and pittsburg constrac-
ton train, now WORKING between Kouts
and Hebron, q small station ten miles
west, saw something of the results OF the
accident. His construction trasn runs
into kouts every evening with iEs: load
OF tired workmep, and the conductor
sleeps in the one little hotels of which
the town boasts. He was awakened at 4
O'clock this morning to take out the
Wabash train that had been delayed by
the wreck. Upon going down stairs in
the hotel he found all confusion IN the
little parlor. A boy OF some Is years, of
age was stretched upon the floor, literally
manRled and torn to pieces, 9Th jnst
enough life left in his body to speak in
whispers to those who asked him about
the accident. In a room off the parlor
another boy Was lying with serious
bruises about the head In one OF the
upper rooms he learned the engineer of
the wrecked meat train was lying at al
most the point of death. So hidious
were these sights, and so piteous were
the cries OF anguish to be heard on all
sidee, that the sturdy conductor could
eat nothing and hurried to bis duties,
glad to escape such q scene.
In the little sitting room OF t~hsoottage
which serves as q hotel in this town, tao
OF the wounded survivors of the accident
still remain late this afternoon. Her
man Miller. q Bohemisn boy, on his way
from Dundee, Ill, to the old country,
stretched on o lounge in the low dark
room. His head is f~earfully battered
and Is right leg is fractured. The other
wounded man is Joseph McOook, q bar
tender Of Boston, whose injuries are
most by internal and are not so severe
but that hia recovery is possible. He was
able 20 tell Of the accident, as follows:
81 was a passenger in the coach at the
time of the accident. which wal the next
to the last car in the train. just before
midnight I went to the smoker which
was Just ahead OF our car and chatted for
an hour With q young man who sat
down lei me. That Wal the last I've
seen, or expect to see OF the poor
fellow. just as I had stretched myself
out to go to tleep, and almost before /
closed my eyes, there was an awful, I'M
Earthly crash, which. God help me, I
ravar rvopf In haar aUnfn oor faai